Fortress Around Your Heart

(início)

From: * (Jordi-Ken Nakahara)
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  from the album:
                                            Dream of the Blue Turtles
 Intro:
 Riff #1

 Part A: play riff #1 throughout the section below.
 Under the ruins of a walled city
 Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light
 No flags of truce, no cries of pity
 The siege guns have been pounding all through the night
 Riff #2

 Part B: play riff #2 throughout the section below.
 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through the streets in the afternoon
 Riff #3:

 Part C: play riff #3 throughout the section below.
 As I returned across the fields I'd known
 I recognized the walls that I once made
 I had to stop in my tracks for fear
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid
 Chorus:
    Dm          C           Am            C
 And if I built this fortress around your heart
    Dm       C      Am              C
 Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
    Dm       C       Am             C
 Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
    Dm     c     Am         c
 And let me set the battlements on fire
 Part D: play riff #1 throughout the section below.
 Then I went off to fight some battle
 That I'd invented inside my head
 Part E: play riff #2 throughout the section below.
 Away so long for years and years
 You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
 Part F: play riff #3 throughout the section below.
 While the armies all are sleeping
 Beneath the tattered flag we made
 I had to stop in my tracks for fear
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid
 Repeat Chorus
 Part G: play riff #1 throughout the section below.
 This prison has now become your home
 A sentence you seem prepared to pay
 Part H: play riff #2 throughout the section below.
 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through it's streets this afternoon
 Part I: play riff #3 throughout the section below.
 As I returned across the lands I'd known
 I recognized the fields where I'd once played
 I had to stop in my tracks fear
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid
 Repeat Chorus
 Go back to intro riff.
 Whew! That was harder to explain than I thought. Your comments or
 corrections would be greatly appreciated.
                        Akira Nakahara (using my brother's account)
        Van Halen, and the Rolling Stones,
                                            Thanks.

Ken Nakahara
*
Toronto, Canada